Deadlock persists over sanctioning FATA posts in service delivery sector on November 14, 2017ISLAMABAD: Senator Hidayatullah Khan has said that the thorny issue of 5,545 posts in service delivery sector for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) will be sanctioned by the Ministry of Finance within a week, adding that the ministry sent the summary back to FATA Secretariat for review. A total of 5,545 posts are required […]
JUI-F launches protests against radio transmissions on November 10, 2017ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) protested throughout the tribal areas on Thursday against the media coverage given by several radio stations to the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). In his telephonic conversation with Daily Times, JUI-F FATA President Mufti Abdul Shakoor said his party’s FATA units had been directed to hold demonstrations in the […]
Opposition questions PTI minister’s claim of uniform education system on November 9, 2017ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) minister for higher education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said his party was committed to implementing a uniform education system throughout the province amid the opposition’s reservations that the vital sector still experiences serious problems. PTI Chairman Imran Khan back in 2013 had said, “No country in the world has separate education systems […]
FATA education sector faces daunting challenges: teachers on November 7, 2017ISLAMABAD: The FATA Directorate of Education earlier claimed to have enrolled 681,042 male and female students in FATA during academic year 2015-2016. However, the figures projected by the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training for the same period state that 736,929 students are out of school in the area. Khan Malik, the All FATA […]
Taliban commander Khaliq Haqqani ‘surrenders’ on November 6, 2017 ISLAMABAD: A notorious Taliban commander, Abdul Khaliq Haqqani, along with his fighters surrendered to the security forces in North Waziristan Agency (NWA), well-placed sources said Sunday. Haqqani was one of the leading Shura Council members of former Taliban head, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, in North Waziristan. The surrendered fighter was once heading an offshoot group […]
Referendum should decide FATA’s fate: Fazlur Rehman on November 5, 2017DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Opposing FATA’s merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Saturday that FATA should be given the status of a separate province. Speaking at ‘Peace and Fuzala Conference’ in Tank district, Rehman said that a referendum should be conducted in the tribal areas to decide the […]
Jirga decides to torch houses of would-be militants’ loyalists on November 4, 2017PESHAWAR: A grand jirga in Kurram region has decided to torch houses of those who will provide shelter to militants or anti-state elements, Member National Assembly (MNA) Sajid Hussain Turi told Daily Times on Friday. Turi said that some four local tribes after the jira (public meeting) met the local administration and law enforcers and […]
KP govt admits 1.5m children still out of school in province on November 1, 2017PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had pledged that enrolling all children in schools was the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government’s top priority but 1.5 million children were still out of school in the province, according to a latest survey conducted by the KP Elementary and Secondary Education Department. On the other hand, the Pakistan Education Statistics […]
Eight held in DI Khan for parading a woman naked on October 31, 2017ISLAMABAD: Police have arrested eight out of nine absconders nominated in the Sharifa Bibi case— a female who was forced by a gang to go home naked after beating her in the vicinity of Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan), police said. DI Khan RPO Fida Hussain told Daily Times on phone that the incident was […]
Sayed Alam Mehsud killed in road accident on October 28, 2017ISLAMABAD: Sayed Alam Mehsud, the legendary folk singer from militancy-plagued South Waziristan tribal region died in a road accident near Dera Ismail Khan (DIK) on Friday, his friends and a sobbing brother said. Talking to Daily Times on phone from DIK, Sher Alam Mehsud, brother of the deceased, said his late brother was traveling in […]